I know a lot of people find trending posts a Bad Feature, and while I personally don't find them very useful because I come across 90% of those posts on my Home timeline anyway, I find them a good feature for those who are new to Mastodon and have difficulty finding interesting posts on the public timelines.

It also sets examples of posts others interact with, which is useful for newbies who can't understand why no one interacts with their posts and assume it's because "it's too empty".

However, I've recently found out posts with content warnings or media marked as sensitive don't get to trend. I'm assuming this is trying to encourage folks to use less content warnings, but even if this isn't the intent, I'm sure those on bigger instances have already figured it out or will notice more interactions come with less content warnings.

Which is worrying.

Here's how to change the code, for those who run instances: https://github.com/IsabelaY/mastodon/commit/39bb10874033d29d0bb53691fed03b891d3a91f4